{"id":853,"date":"2015-02-13T23:59:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/?p=853"},"modified":"2015-02-15T00:48:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:48:03","slug":"day-10-the-best-party-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/2015\/02\/13\/day-10-the-best-party-in-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 10: The best party in town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Headache? Nausea? This need not necessarily be related to the today&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day. Rather, it could be that yesterday&#8217;s night was the night of the year.The best party was a guest of the Komische Oper. The winner of the this year&#8217;s TEDDY AWARD&#8217;s were chosen yesterday. And what can I say, it was a glittering party again. Grand winners, great guest and a fantastic show! Of course, any good ceremony has an fantastic after show party as well. Therefore, many pepole went to the SchwuZ after the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/day10_hungover.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1606 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/day10_hungover.gif\" alt=\"day10_hungover\" width=\"500\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Who may have some memory gaps or would like to look at the best moments of the 2015 TEDDY again have to visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TeddyAwards\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>. Here you can watch all winners, performances and background informations again. But the Teddy is not over. Even today, you can still watch TEDDY films.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=584\" target=\"_blank\">Stories of Our Lives<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Stories of Our Lives<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Kenya 2014<br \/>\n60&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Jim Chuchu<br \/>\nCast: Kelly Gichohi, Janice Mugo, Jimmy Wanjala, Tim Mutungi<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stories Of Our Lives - Official Trailer\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KxDr1ue-lHc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Members of the multi-disciplinary art collective NEST spent several months travelling Kenya collecting stories of young LGBTI people \u2013 stories about their experiences and their lives in a country that is still extremely homophobic. Based on countless anonymous interviews, they developed five screenplays for short films which provide an insight into the current situation and the problems of these sexually marginalised young people. These short, unadorned scenes are presented by director Jim Chuchu in crisp, poetic black-and-white images and accompanied by a measured soundtrack. The episodes, which address topics such as the search for identity and self-determination, enforced\u00a0heterosexualisation and the struggle for acceptance, have one thing in common: they all describe the need for love and the fear of fulfilling this love openly. Time and again, their fears prompt the question: it is better to hide away, resign oneself to the situation and leave the country, or to stay and fight openly for sexual diversity? In spite of the film being banned from public screenings in Kenya, the members of NEST have opted for the latter and are determined to continue their struggle for recognition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/stories_of_our_lives_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1466 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/stories_of_our_lives_b.jpg\" alt=\"stories_of_our_lives_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>12.00 pm, Zoo Palast 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=605\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Onthakan<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The Blue Hour<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">2015<br \/>\n97&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Anucha Boonyawatana<br \/>\nCast: Atthaphan Poonsawas, Oabnithi Wiwattanawarang, Duangjai Hirunsri, Panutchai Kittisatima<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tam, a timid loner, is bullied regularly by his fellow pupils at school. He is met with similar rejection\u00a0and suspicion within the narrow confines of his parents\u2019 dingy home, where his father beats him. One day Tam arranges online to meet Phum at a derelict swimming pool. They are both looking for\u00a0sex, but their encounter leaves them with a feeling of comfort and security. A close bond develops between the two boys and, before long, they are roaming the rubbish heaps and dark corners of the\u00a0city together, day and night. Phum opens a door for Tam, revealing a fantastical parallel universe full of spirits and dangerous encounters. Although he feels safe and loved for the first time in his\u00a0life, Tam can no longer differentiate between dream and reality and finds himself increasingly drawn into a spiral of paranoia and violence.In his feature debut Boonyawatana leads his protagonist into\u00a0an ambiguous microcosm full of chasms, at the same time cleverly toying with the conventions of\u00a0different genres.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/onthakan_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1458 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/onthakan_b.jpg\" alt=\"onthakan_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>12.30 pm, CinemaxX 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=603\" target=\"_blank\">Misfits<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Misfits<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Denmark\/Sweden 2015<br \/>\n74&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Jannik Splidsboel<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tulsa, Oklahoma is a city in the midst of the USA\u2019s Bible Belt with almost 400,000 inhabitants, over\u00a04,000 churches and just one gay and lesbian youth centre. This is the meeting place for Larissa, Ben, \u2018D\u2019 and other youths who because of their decision to live gay, lesbian and transgender lives,\u00a0are either not accepted or, on the contrary, have received strong support from their families and unconditional love.Jannik Splidsboel, whose film How Are You screened in Panorama in 2011, takes\u00a0an almost entirely observational approach to his depiction of the lives of these three teenagers, their\u00a0first love or their longing for love, their coming out, and their dreams for the future. In an unhurried,\u00a0almost casual fashion, the film shows how \u2018D\u2019 manages step by step to improve his precarious\u00a0existence and how Ben learns from his brother how to defend himself. Courtesy of Larissa and her\u00a0girlfriend we are also are treated to one of the most dazzling and colourful lesbian kiss scenes in film\u00a0history. Misfits portrays three basically \u2018average\u2019 young people as they try to live queer lives, find their\u00a0gender identities, love and be loved in an environment pervaded by religious fundamentalism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Misfits_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1455 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Misfits_b.jpg\" alt=\"Misfits_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>14.00 pm, Kino International<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=635\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Haftanlage 4614<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Prison System 4614<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Germany 2015<br \/>\n60&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Jan Soldat<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jpB6Q34IoB4\u00a0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jpB6Q34IoB4\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the world of fetishes there\u2019s a niche for every type of proclivity. Arwed caters to a special type of customer: he runs a private prison where he is happy to find all sorts of ways to bully and victimise his paying guests on the other side of the bars. As prison director he is master of ceremonies; during the course of one week, he and his partner Dennis help fulfil their prisoners\u2019 wildest fantasies. The inmates treat the days and nights they spend in handcuffs and leg irons as a real holiday \u2013 here at last is a place they can finally switch off and relax. The role play looks a bit like improvised theatre, especially when director Arwed and his assistant Dennis plan the next day\u2019s performance in the bare cells and corridors of their institution. But even when using the whip these \u2018torturers\u2019 never forget to be humane and, in spite of their tough prison warder guise, they are fully aware, in way that is almost\u00a0caring, of their responsibility for those in \u2018detention\u2019. Director Jan Soldat poses his questions offscreen, in the same interview style that he adopted in his short films.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/haftanalga_4614_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1445 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/haftanalga_4614_b.jpg\" alt=\"haftanalga_4614_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>15.30 pm, Colosseum 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=588\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<strong>Sue\u00f1an los androides<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Androids Dream<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Spain\/Germany 2014<br \/>\n61&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Ion de Sosa<br \/>\nCast: Manolo Mar\u00edn, Mois\u00e9s Richart, Marta Bassols, Coque S\u00e1nchez<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trailer Androids Dream - Sue\u00f1an los Androides - Androiden Tr\u00e4umen\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/110880489?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The year may be 2052, yet this is a future with one foot in the past. Between the strangely artificial skyscrapers along the coastline and the neon-lined broadwalk, there\u2019s nothing here to suggest it isn\u2019t still 1975, 1995 or 2015. But there are fewer people around nowadays and many apartments lie empty, a tranquil wasteland of exposed wires, unfinished plasterwork and endless dust. Those that remain are at least house-proud, eager to show off their knickknacks and traditional costumes, when not meeting up for the occasional dance. Hardly the most obvious place for a bounty hunter, but the robots still need to be exterminated, particularly as they already look so much like you and me. Ion de Sosa\u2019s spare, enigmatic adaptation of Philip K. Dick\u2019s &#8220;Do Androids Dream of Electric\u00a0Sheep?&#8221; is at once a minimalist genre piece, an oblique treatise on difference and an essayistic almost-documentary on the unreal status quo of contemporary Spain. And as the title suggests, these androids do indeed dream: of far-off places and new opportunities; of the songs of past summers; of a shared embrace, a sheep on a leash, as the towers and mountains open out beyond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sueanan_los_androids_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1467 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sueanan_los_androids_b.jpg\" alt=\"sueanan_los_androids_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>16.30 pm, CineStar 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=625\">Daniel\u016fv Sv\u011bt<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Daniel&#8217;s World<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Czech Republic 2014<br \/>\n74&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Veronika Li\u0161kov\u00e1<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Daniel\u016fv sv\u011bt \/ Daniel&#039;s World\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/reJUWSHwgwc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Daniel, a 25-year-old student of literature, lies in the bath. Off-screen we hear his voice: \u2018Although\u00a0I\u2019ve never been with either a boy or a girl, I can\u2019t say my life lacks love.\u2019 But what is it like for a young man who loves boys; a man who, unable to ever fulfil his desire, either has to content himself with\u00a0sexual fantasies or use medication to suppress his feelings? This film accompanies Daniel in his\u00a0struggle to accept himself, and his desperate search for a partner. While we watch simple yet wellcomposed\u00a0images of Daniel at the hairdressers, ice skating, or taking his mother\u2019s dog out for a walk, his off-screen commentary continues to probe and find a way to handle both his coming out and his\u00a0unfulfilled desires and live a fulfilled life. Not wanting to distort her protagonist\u2019s voice, nor make his\u00a0face unrecognisable, Veronika Li\u0161kov\u00e1 met over twenty paedophiles before choosing to work with\u00a0Daniel who, in spite of being aware of how vulnerable he is making himself, is exceptionately open\u00a0about his condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/daniels_world_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1435 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/daniels_world_b.jpg\" alt=\"daniels_world_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>17.00 pm, CineStar 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=597\" target=\"_blank\">El hombre nuevo<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>The new man<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Uruguay\/Chile 2015<br \/>\n79&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Aldo Garay<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At the tender age of twelve, Roberto supported the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and fought\u00a0for education and social reforms. He was to continue his political struggle fighting alongside the<br \/>\ncommunist Tupamaros in Uruguay. Thirty years later he is struggling to live his life as a woman\u00a0named Stephan\u00eda and striving to be accepted by both society and his family. Documentary filmmaker<br \/>\nAldo Garay has followed Stephan\u00eda for over twenty years. In El Hombre Nuevo he provides a\u00a0personal and tender portrait of a woman who can look back on a tempestuous life in which violence,<br \/>\ndrugs, prostitution and political commitment all found its place. Scenes from her day-to-day life are\u00a0interspersed with interview material that includes conversations with old friends, fellow-travellers\u00a0and siblings, as well as a passionate, heated exchange with her mother. The picture of society that\u00a0emerges is as diverse as it is intimate, and spans a time of great political upheaval in the 1970s to<br \/>\nthe present day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/the_new_man_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1440 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/the_new_man_b.jpg\" alt=\"the_new_man_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>17.30 pm, Cubix 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=592\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>La Isla est\u00e1 Encantada con Ustedes<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><em>The Island is enchanted with You<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">USA\/Switzerland\/Australia 2014<br \/>\n28&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Alexander Carver, Daniel Schmidt<br \/>\nCast: Raul De Nieves, Lydela Leonor, Lea Cetera, Carlos Solis-Keyser<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La Isla est\u00e1 Encantada con Ustedes\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/107495672?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In 1511, indigenous people in Puerto Rico seduced and murdered a representative of colonial power.\u00a0Some 300 years later, a further chapter of colonial history: In 1803, by order of the Spanish Crown, a doctor named Francisco Javier de Balmis travelled to Puerto Rico with a number of orphans. They\u00a0were carriers of the live vaccine with which Balmis executed one of the first mass immunisations<br \/>\nagainst smallpox. A glance to the present day: In 2014, Puerto Rico produced an enormous amount\u00a0of pharmaceuticals with subsidies from the USA. By interweaving strands of colonial and postcolonial history, the filmmakers of La Isla est\u00e1 Encantada con Ustedes have created a lyrical work that\u00a0mirrors and completes the dynamics of power and lust. A modern roundelay, that restages the past in the present. Lead by a gaze of sexual subtext, this is a comedy in which reality is subordinate to\u00a0strategies of power \u2013while revealing the closely intertwined nature of health and economics, in the past and present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/la_isla_esta_encanatada_con_ustedes_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1452 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/la_isla_esta_encanatada_con_ustedes_b.jpg\" alt=\"la_isla_esta_encanatada_con_ustedes_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>17.45 pm, Colosseum 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=593\" target=\"_blank\">The Mad Half Hour<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>The Mad Half Hour<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Argentina\/Denmark 2015<br \/>\n22&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Leonardo Brzezicki<br \/>\nCast: Julian Larquier, Diego Echegoyen, Laila Maltz, Martina Juncadella<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Once a day, domestic cats go completely mad. A total burst of energy. It\u2019s all over within half an hour.\u00a0No one knows why. That\u2019s just how it is.Juan is rather similar. He doesn\u2019t know why, it just seizes\u00a0him. The loss of commitment. Why should he bother to hit a ball over the net and wait for it to be\u00a0returned, while making sure it stays within the white line? Does he still love Pedro, no, perhaps yes?<br \/>\nPedro is used to it and takes him by the hand. They venture into the night together and stray, likes\u00a0cats, through the streets of Buenos Aires. Far more than pursuing narrative logic, the film follows<br \/>\nhuman feelings without ever fully relinquishing the threads of the storyline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/the_mad_half_hour_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1472 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/the_mad_half_hour_b.jpg\" alt=\"the_mad_half_hour_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>17.45 pm, Colosseum 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=602\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mariposa<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Butterfly<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Argentina 2015<br \/>\n103&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Marco Berger<br \/>\nCast: Ail\u00edn Salas, Javier De Pietro, Juli\u00e1n Infantino, Malena Villa<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A butterfly, a creature symbolising rebirth and a new beginning, epitomises Romina\u2019s and Javier\u2019s\u00a0world, a world that consists of two parallel realities. In one of them they grow up as siblings who\u00a0desire each other and try to give shape to their love without sexual fulfilment; in the other they are\u00a0a young man and woman who form an awkward friendship instead of succumbing to their feelings<br \/>\nfor each other. Javier finds himself in a discordant relationship with Mariela. Mariela\u2019s brother is\u00a0interested in Bruno. Bruno is with Romina, but wants to be with Javier. Playfully alternating between<br \/>\nthese two realities, the lovers find themselves drawn into ever new couplings in order to explore their\u00a0intuitive feelings \u2013 cautiously, but at the same time prepared to lose everything.Marco Berger, who<br \/>\nwon the 2011 Teddy Award, takes a fascinating film idea and turns it into an impressive universe of\u00a0endlessly diverse approaches to friendship and love. This is an unusually dynamic space in which<br \/>\nemotional insecurity, sexual confusion, incest, self-deception, intuition and spiritual bonding all find\u00a0their place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mariposa_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1454 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mariposa_b.jpg\" alt=\"Mariposa_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>19.00 pm, Zoo Palast 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=581\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fassbinder &#8211; lieben ohne zu fordern<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Fassbindern &#8211; to love without demands<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Denmark 2015<br \/>\n109&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Christian Braad Thomsen<br \/>\nCast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Irm Hermann, Harry Baer, Andrea Schober<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany\u2019s most significant post-war director. His swift and\u00a0dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982 left behind a vacuum in European filmmaking that\u00a0has yet to be filled, as well as a body of unique, multi-layered and multifarious work of astonishing\u00a0consistency and rigour. From 1969 onwards, Danish director and film historian Christian Braad\u00a0Thomsen maintained a close yet respectfully distanced friendship with Fassbinder. Fassbinder &#8211;\u00a0Lieben ohne zu fordern is based on his personal memories as well as a series of conversations and\u00a0interviews he held with Fassbinder and his mother Lilo in the 1970s. The film also contains current\u00a0interviews with Irm Hermann and Harry Baer, both of whom were close to Fassbinder. Beginning with\u00a0Fassbinder\u2019s extraordinary childhood in traumatised post-war Germany, the film, which is divided\u00a0into seven chapters, provides an illuminating, intimate and moving tribute that bears witness to the<br \/>\nenduring relevance of both the man and his work. Today in particular his oeuvre continues to provoke us to engage with controversy and tension \u2013 be it aesthetical, creative or critical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Fassbinder_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1441 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Fassbinder_b.jpg\" alt=\"Fassbinder_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"505\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>20.00 pm, CineStar 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=580\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dyke Hard<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Dyke Hard<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Sweden 2014<br \/>\n94&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Bitte Andersson<br \/>\nCast: Peggy Sands, Alle Eriksson, M W\u00e5gensj\u00f6, Lina Kurttila<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dyke Hard - Trailer - Stockholm International Film Festival 2014\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FhOjrRGUl5Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After scoring a huge hit with their first single, hip lesbian band Dyke Hard fall into the creative doldrums. When their front woman leaves it looks like curtains for the rest of the band, but then the girls hear of a battle of the bands in the big city in three days\u2019 time and decide to participate and give their maudlin career a kick start. A road trip adventure full of danger, intrigue and all sorts of obstacles ensues. The women find themselves in a haunted house and soon after wind up unjustly accused on death row until a gay prison warder helps them escape. They find brief respite at the home of a sweet old lady with a hidden agenda who almost makes them forget where they\u2019re going. But their luck turns again and, following a battle with cyborgs and ninjas they finally manage to make\u00a0it to the competition, just in time. \u2018Trash as trash can!\u2019 is the ambitious motto of this camp and zany sexploitation-horror-trash-musical guaranteed to be lacking in anything resembling good taste. Told at breakneck speed, this is a tongue-in-cheek, perverse, polymorphic ride that has the potential to vie with cult offerings by the likes of John Waters and Russ Meyer, or the Austin Powers series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dyke_hard_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1438 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dyke_hard_b.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Nicklas Dennermalm\" width=\"700\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>21.30 pm, Zoo Palast 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=604\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nasty Baby<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Nasty Baby<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">USA 2014<br \/>\n100&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Sebasti\u00e1n Silva<br \/>\nCast: Kristen Wiig, Sebasti\u00e1n Silva, Tunde Adebimpe, Agustin Silva<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Freddy is an artist whose desire for a baby has become something of an obsession. He surrounds\u00a0himself with photographs of his childhood and is working feverishly on a fresh piece about new-borns.\u00a0He and his partner Mo have even managed to persuade their best friend Polly to have their baby.\u00a0However, after numerous failed attempts to conceive, this proves to be more difficult than they first<br \/>\nenvisaged. Freddy\u2019s planned video installation also turns out to be rather more complicated than\u00a0he thought. And then, when the \u2018Bishop\u2019, their rather deranged neighbour, begins tormenting them<br \/>\nwith his serious chicanery, their hitherto carefree existence starts to go dangerously awry. A series\u00a0of surprising events bring their frustrations to a head and before long, Freddy and his friends begin<br \/>\nto lose their grip on reality.Sebasti\u00e0n Silva\u2019s savagely satirical film is an angry portrait of a group of\u00a0presumptuous and self-absorbed bohemians. The director himself plays the role of Freddy, infusing<br \/>\nhis performance with the complacency, doggedness, ignorance and egomania of a social circle which\u00a0is in the process of becoming estranged from their original visions and dreams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nasty_Baby_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1456 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nasty_Baby_b.jpg\" alt=\"Nasty_Baby_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>22.30 pm, CinemaxX 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=600\" target=\"_blank\">H\u00e4rte<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Tough Love<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Germany 2015<br \/>\n89&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Rosa von Praunheim<br \/>\nCast: Hanno Koffler, Andreas Marquardt, Luise Heyer, Marion Erdmann<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When karate champ Andreas Marquardt thinks about himself he feels nothing but bitterness: \u2018I\u00a0refused to feel anything. I was cold, like a block of ice, I couldn\u2019t give a shit about anything.\u2019 When\u00a0he was two years old, his father poured water over him and put him outside on the balcony in subzero\u00a0temperatures. Another time he crushed his hand. When he was six, his mother began to seduce\u00a0him: \u2018Your prick belongs to me, my little friend.\u2019 Later, Andreas became a pimp and earned millions \u2013\u00a0until he wound up behind bars. Lovely Marion was the only one who stood by him, who went on the\u00a0game for him, and gave him the courage to go on \u2026 Interspersing interviews with dramatized scenes\u00a0from Andreas Marquardt\u2019s biography, Rosa von Praunheim describes a life that veers from fear\u00a0and humiliation to contempt, hatred and brutality. Filmed in stylised sets replete with photographic\u00a0wallpaper that recall West Berlin d\u00e9cor at the time, the film provides a shocking insight into the deep\u00a0wounds caused by domestic violence and one man\u2019s desperate attempts at resistance. Is it possible\u00a0to break out of such a vicious circle? And how does Andreas Marquardt cope with these experiences\u00a0today?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tough_love_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1446 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tough_love_b.jpg\" alt=\"tough_love_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>22.30 pm, Colosseum 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=583\" target=\"_blank\">I am Michael<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>I am Michael<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">USA 2015<br \/>\n100&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Justin Kelly<br \/>\nCast: James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Emma Roberts<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">San Francisco in 1998. Queer activist Michael is passionately committed to supporting gay and\u00a0lesbian youths. His own deep longing to belong means that he is tirelessly engaged in redefining his own existence, absorbing with apparent ease young Tyler into his long term relationship with his\u00a0friend Bennett. The trio decides to travel America to record on film the lives of gay teenagers. They subsequently manage to raise the cash to launch Michael\u2019s own LGBT magazine. But Michael isn\u2019t\u00a0happy with the way he\u2019s living his life. Following a suspected heart attack he strives to find a way to balance sexuality and spirituality and decides to leave his chosen family and friends. After engaging\u00a0in meditative contemplation and heterosexual experiments, he firmly embraces Christianity.In his sensitive directorial debut, Justin Kelly deftly juxtaposes different periods of time to describe the\u00a0unusual transformation of Michael Glatze, the co-founder of the magazine \u2018Young Gay America\u2019 and a one-time inspirational figure of the LGBT community who, after prolonged and persistent soulsearching,\u00a0decided to reject homosexuality and become a preacher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/I_Am_Michael_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1448 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/I_Am_Michael_b.jpg\" alt=\"I_Am_Michael_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>23:00 Uhr, Cubix 7\u00a0&amp; 8<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headache? Nausea? This need not necessarily be related to the today&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day. Rather, it could be that yesterday&#8217;s night was the night of the year.The best party was a guest of the Komische Oper. The winner of the this year&#8217;s TEDDY AWARD&#8217;s were chosen yesterday. And what can I say, it was a glittering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/2015\/02\/13\/day-10-the-best-party-in-town\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 10: The best party in town<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,86,58],"tags":[96,19,16,31,90,91],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-teddy-2015","category-teddy-today-3","tag-29th-teddy-award","tag-berlinale","tag-film","tag-program","tag-rainer-werner-fassbinder","tag-teddy-award-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}